Chinanews.com, Beijing, January 7 (Jiang Li) Statistics from Johns Hopkins University in the United States show that the number of new confirmed cases of new crowns in the United States on the 3rd exceeded 1 million, which is the highest number of new cases in a single day since the outbreak. Record.
The proliferation of confirmed cases has caused public grievances, but some politicians are still able to claim that “whether or not to wear a mask in public is personal freedom”, and even use means such as “planting” China to shift the focus of the country. Epidemic prevention and control have been completely reduced. Victims of partisan struggles.
As of the early morning of the 4th Eastern Time, the United States had a total of more than 56 million confirmed cases and a total of more than 820,000 deaths. It is the country with the largest number of confirmed cases and deaths of new coronary pneumonia in the world.
As one of the countries with the most sound and developed medical systems in the world, the number of confirmed cases of the new crown in the United States has reached a new high, which is jaw-dropping.
Nowadays, the so-called "mask freedom" and "vaccine freedom" promoted by American politicians have misled many domestic people, resulting in the ineffective implementation of basic epidemic prevention measures.
The United States, which advertises humanitarian and human rights, emphasizes "America first" in vaccine distribution. Not only does it fail to cooperate with the global vaccine plan, it also accuses China of vaccine assistance and imposing export controls on vaccine production raw materials.
The United States is hoarding a large amount of vaccines far exceeding its population needs, and has been reluctant to assist developing countries, which has exacerbated the unfair distribution of vaccines worldwide.
However, the overall vaccination rate in the United States is only 60.84%. The general public’s attitude towards vaccination depends on their party affiliation. Sufficient vaccine reserves and low vaccination rates have formed a "black humorous" contrast.
The implementation of the mask order is even more difficult.
There has been a tug of war between different parties and interest groups over whether wearing masks violates personal freedom. Wearing masks or not has become a victim of the concept of "personal freedom" and partisan struggles.
As we all know, vaccination and wearing masks are the most basic and effective means of prevention and control, but extreme antagonisms between parties and severe social divisions have caused the two parties in the United States to fall into a political game of “opposition for opposition” in the prevention and control of the epidemic, to the point that The whole country is deeply mired in the epidemic and cannot extricate itself from it.
In addition, in order to "boost the economy," political parties in the United States ignore the interests and lives of ordinary people in their country, ignore the epidemic warning, deliberately downplay the risks, and repeatedly miss the best opportunity to effectively contain the epidemic.
Epidemic prevention and control is a systematic work, and many links such as isolation, screening, tracking, and vaccination are indispensable.
However, due to poor government supervision and enforcement, various prevention and control measures are full of loopholes, and even false detection points and counterfeit home detection kits for the new crown virus have appeared.
The epidemic has not been effectively alleviated for a long time, causing ordinary people to fall into fatigue, relax their vigilance, and make epidemic prevention work worse.
The surge in the number of confirmed diagnoses is not just a change in the number, but behind it is the passing and struggling of a series of living lives.
The chaos and disorder in the response to the new crown pneumonia pandemic actually reflects the US government's indifference to the lives of the people, and it also reflects the flaws and failures of its system.
In the face of more mutated strains that may emerge, the United States must form a concerted effort to re-enact effective prevention and control policies, and stop letting the people pay for it with their lives, otherwise it will not be able to get out of the "cold winter" of the epidemic.
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Record-breaking cases reveal U.S. failure in Covid control
By John Lee
(ECNS) -- With the most developed medical system in the world, the U.S. still saw over 1 million newly confirmed COVID-19 cases on Monday, a single-day record since the outbreak of the pandemic, revealing the U.S. government's failure in controlling the virus.
The country has the most confirmed COVID-19 cases and deaths in the world, with the number surpassing 56 million and 820,000 respectively as of early Tuesday morning, according to John Hopkins University.
Americans' inappropriate pursuit of "freedom" as “sold” by politicians makes basic COVID-19 prevention and control measures like wearing a mask or vaccination hard to implement in the country.
The U.S. upholds the "America first" principle in vaccine distribution. It not only fails to cooperate with the global vaccine distribution plan, but also controls the export of raw materials for vaccine production while criticizing China for assisting developing countries with vaccines. It has hoarded a large number of vaccines far exceeding the needs of its population, but its full vaccination rate barely exceeds 60 percent, since people's attitude towards vaccination depends on their party affiliation, which is rather sarcastic.
The mask order is even more difficult to implement in America. Parties and groups began a tug-of-war on whether wearing masks violates personal freedom, resulting in the mask becoming a victim of "personal freedom" and partisan struggle. Vaccination and wearing masks are the most basic but effective methods to fight against COVID-19. However, the extreme opposition between parties and the serious division of society has turned the COVID-19 fight into a "game of power" in the country.
In addition, the U.S. government failed to effectively supervise or implement its pandemic response policies, thus fueling illegal action. For example, counterfeit COVID-19 detection stations and fraudulent test kits for COVID-19 have popped up in some parts of the U.S. The serious, long-term pandemic situation is wearing its people out. They have gradually let their guard down, making epidemic prevention in the country even worse.
What lies behind the surging deaths is not only the country's policy disorders in the COVID fight, but also its neglect of lives. The U.S. government has to reflect on its mistakes and re-formulate powerful prevention and control measures to respond to other possible variants effectively, or its people will continue to pay for these mistakes at the cost of their lives.